You can’t overstate what the pink and purple enemy palettes do to brighten up these games, in an era where brown was becoming the official colour of shooters.ġ hour 30 mins: Marines know how to do many things, but flipping a jeep the right way up isn’t one of them. It’s a tiny touch that lends the AI loads of character.ġ hour 6 minutes: I’m starting to recognise structures that later showed up in Halo Wars, like the sniper tower with the hover-lift. Wish Alexa was this banterous.ĥ2 mins: The bomb ride is still entertainingly ludicrous, even by action game standards.ġ hour: Sometimes, a Marine steps over to a Covenant corpse and fills it with lead, just to be safe. It’s not possible.Ĥ9 mins: “How much time was left?”, the Chief asks Cortana after disarming a bomb. I’ve reloaded the checkpoint several times to see if it’s possible to save the guy who yells, “Get the hell out of my armoury, split lip”.
The fact that he even made it off Halo in the first game makes him a hero - where’s his medal?ģ0 mins: “I don’t believe it! They’re retreating, we won!” The Marines’ idiot optimism has always been one of their most endearing traits.Ĥ4 mins: Halo 2’s hardest mode isn’t Legendary, actually - it’s playing on Normal while keeping every friendly AI character alive. The humans formalise war through medals and ceremony, making it noble - while the aliens strip their own naked, brand them with burning poles, and expose the brutality of battle.Ģ1 mins: First contact with Chips Dubbo, the loudmouth Australian marine who never appears in cutscenes yet makes his presence very much known.
Did they have a phase of Christianity? Think of the knock-on effects for all those fan wikis - they’d need to have a page for every book in the Bible.ġ0 mins: The opening tram ride is a fun nod to Half-Life, even if it does last for literally the length of a nod.ġ2 mins: Hey, anybody talking up the impenetrability of a defence system in the opening of a thriller deserves what they get.Ģ0 mins: The juxtaposition of UNSC and Covenant rituals is fascinating. It’s fun to see the galaxies revealed in greater detail, but it does damage the sense of mystery tied to those monolithic grey structures in the first game.Ĥ mins: Sort of blows my mind that the Covenant call it ‘Halo’ too. Before this moment, your enemy was truly alien, intelligent yet unfathomable. 2 mins: Bungie took a seismic storytelling decision by letting you look inside the Covenant and its politics.
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